On March 15, 2013, a well-known Russian Turkologist, Head of the Department of Turkic Philology of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University, Doctor of Philology, Honored Professor of Moscow State University, member of the Russian Committee of Turkologists Yuri Vladimirovich Shcheka died after a serious illness. Yu. V. Shcheka was born on August 13, 1946 in Moscow in the family of an employee. From 1964 to 1970. He studied at the Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University, where he received a degree in Oriental studies and Turkology. In August 1970, Yuri Vladimirovich was sent to work in Turkey as a translator in the office of the Economic Adviser of the USSR Embassy. Working in Turkey allowed him to turn to the research of a new scientific direction for domestic Turkology - the analysis of spoken speech. After returning to Moscow in 1976, he was accepted as an intern at the Department of Turkic Philology of the ISAA of Moscow State University, with which he connected all his subsequent creative scientific life and teaching activities. In November 1976, Y. V. Shcheka was enrolled in the graduate school of ISAA, in 1981 he defended his PhD thesis " Features of the syntax of Turkish colloquial speech (simple sentence)". Later, the dissertation was published as a monograph "Turkish Colloquial speech "(1989, 2nd ed. - 2010), which became a significant help for teaching spoken Turkish not only in ISAA, but also in many other Turkological centers. In 1990, Yu. V. Shcheka received his second postgraduate education, having graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University. In 1993, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Intonology of the Turkish language and problems of its general theoretical justification", which presents the original holistic author's concept of intonology of the Turkish language, based on a complex of comprehensive experimental studies, the results of which were processed using a ... Читать далее